Disappeared pages - different results on AOL Search and Google

[odehmohd]

Hello,

Before two weeks, my website was ranked in top 10 for specific keywords; now 13 pages have disappeared from Google search result when I do a search using the same specific keyword!

However, when I do a Google search for ("site:example.com") I get all my webpages, on the other hand when I do an AOL search – which is almost the same of Google - for ("site:example.com") I get 27 pages! Actually, only these pages are still showing up in Google search for their specific keywords!

Any one has an idea about this?

Thanks in advance.

Odeh

[edited by: engine at 5:42 pm (utc) on Sep. 20, 2007]
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[soapystar]

yeah...thats a nice find...aol seems to give the site count after removing binned pages....

[odehmohd]

Thank you soapystar for your response.
What do you mean exactly by ("binned pages")

Thak you

[odehmohd]

Hi,

No one can help or I did not provide enough information?

Thanks.

[tedster]

There are two possibilities I can see:

1. This might be an AOL data glitch - or a glitch in the data they get from Google.

2. AOL does some custom modification of Google's search data, but what that is exactly is quite mysterious. You could be caught by whatever "extra" it is tha AOL does.

In either case, I have no ideas about how the webmaster could bring about a change.

[odehmohd]

Well, I found that an AOL search for site:example.com is equal to Google search site:example.com/*

My website consists of 45 pages, 35 of them are considered as supplemental results!

My website is new and I'm adding / modifying contents daily……

Any suggestion / ideas about this?!?!?

[edited by: tedster at 7:22 pm (utc) on Oct. 17, 2007]
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[tedster]

Hey, that's a good find. I can verify that for the sites I checked, AOL does not get Supplemental urls. Makes some sense, folding in supplementals takes a lot of computational cycles and infrastructure.

What you can do is all the best practices for getting into the main Google index. Unique title elements and meta descriptions, a healthy backlink profile, no technical problems creating duplicate urls for the same content and so on. Nothing much more I can think of - just create pages that are a vital addition to the web and get them seen as such by other sites.